BSAS / RSB Register of Animal Scientists & Animal Technologists
Application Guidance Notes with Examples
Applications are assessed by two independent assessors before being considered by the Accreditation Panel. Both Assessors and Panel are chosen for their knowledge of your area of expertise.Your application should give enough information to assure them that your inclusion on the Register is justified. You should also give contact details (email addresses etc) so your claims can be verified.
First, GO to BSAS WEB SITE HOME PAGE
Then follow guidance and examples as given here below:
Click on < Accreditation > (top right-hand side in green options strip)
Click on < How to apply >
Click on yellow button < Apply Online >
If you have not already done so, you will require to Register with the site by giving a few simple personal details. This will set you up with a “My account’ page, through which you will also access your CPD record. In your ‘My account’ page is a link ‘Apply for Accreditation on line’.
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The on-line application form will be asking you for the following sorts of information:
Qualifications
Please list up to three qualifications. For each one you are asked to give
Date
Level (e.g. BSc, Diploma, PhD)
Subject
Issuing body or institution
Intended Designation and Level
Options are: Scientist (Associate); Animal Scientist (Certified); Animal Technologist (Associate); Animal Technologist (Certified). Post-nominals are : R. Anim. Sci.; R. Anim. Technol. Note: A scientist acquires knowledge through scientific method, while a technologist is a user of science. Certified is the professional level, while associate is for those in the earlier stages of career development.
Main area of principal professional activity
You should enter one (preferably) or two (maximum) areas of professional activity. It is recommended you use a descriptor from the list noted below, although you are allowed to enter your own descriptor. You can have up to two, separated by a semi-colon.
Example: Allied trades and Industries, Animal care and health, Recreational animals, Veterinary, Animal product processing, Business and commerce, Consultancy, Government, Manufacturing, Primary production, Public relations, media and journalism, Public sector, Research, Investigation and Development, Retail, Service, Student, Teaching and Training, Other.
Your choices for designation and level, and main area of professional activity will define: who you are in Professional terms, how you will appear to others on the Public Register, how the elements of your initial application will be weighed by the Accreditation Panel, what criteria the Accreditation Panel will use in assessing your application, and how the appropriateness of your subsequent CPD activities (for Re-Registration) will be judged.
Competencies
Please provide evidence of up to nine categories of relevant skills, experience and competencies which justify your inclusion on the register (completion of all nine sectors is not a prerequisite for accreditation.)
Please give each competency a heading and adequate detail so assessors can verify your abilities.
Written works in the public domain.
Include reports, technical communications, scientific papers, articles, business reports, expert evidence, or any relevant other. Give sufficient references to allow verification. Please give trackable references. If you have no publications put ‘none’. Publications are not a prerequisite for accreditation.
EXAMPLES OF SORTS OF PUBLICATIONS: Technical handbooks; Scientific journal papers and book chapters; Proceedings of Scientific and Technical Conferences; Advisory leaflets and instruction manuals; Scientific and technical articles; Publications on the web; Broadcasts; Contributions to public understanding of Science and Technology; Any other
Consultancy and similar activities.
Include activities and experience in the general area of consultancy work to the benefit of others. Give specific examples and means of verification (such as Email addresses, websites and references).
EXAMPLES OF SORTS OF CONSULTANCY: Field and Farms contracts (Give details of farms and specific types of work done); Feed industry, pharmaceuticals, and other Allied Trades (Give details of scale of operations and the scale of your influence in shaping practice); Retained consultancies (Give details, scope and means of verification); Expert witness and public service activities; Any other
Knowledge and information seeking (research and development).
R&D initiation, execution or management, including abilities that enable research & development. Include experience in transfer of scientific and technological findings to user communities. Also refer to aspects of your research that relate to care of the wider environment and of welfare, and compliance with ethical codes, regulations and safety. Give specific examples and means of verification (such as Email addresses, websites and references).
EXAMPLES OF SORTS OF RESEARCH: Original Applicant and Leader for research programmes and/or grants (give titles of programmes, purposes, indications of scale and financial values); Activities as Team leader or team member with Colleagues and others (give details of activities, other team members; Programme outputs (utility, papers, presentations, patents, industry uptake etc); Brief summary of previous research record;Competency in statistical analysis and data interpretation; Use of theoretical and practical methods to analyse and solve problems (eg, engineering, surveys, development of in-vivo and in-vitro research techniques, modelling, laboratory techniques, licenses and so on); Any other
Knowledge and technical transfer.
Include experience in transfer of technological information and support to the benefit of others. Give specific examples and means of verification (such as Email addresses, websites and references).
EXAMPLES OF SORTS OF KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNICAL TRANSFER: Presentations to BSAS and similar (give references); Talks to in-house and public technological conferences and discussion groups (give examples); Invited talks to farmer’s meetings; Talks to local Schools and Societies; On-farm practical demonstrations and training classes; Involvement in production of Technical Manuals; Any other
Provision of goods and services (including sales).
Include all those areas where you have been involved in selling or otherwise delivering goods and services (including technical sales and sales support). Give specific examples and means of verification (such as Email addresses, websites and references).
EXAMPLES OF SORTS OF PROVISION OF GOODS AND SERVICES: Technical sales (detail company, scale of activity and products); Scientific and patent product sales (detail); General sales; Sales Management and oversight; Strategy development for delivery of services; Programme development and client customization together with company scientists and technologists; Experience in particular sectors, products and species; Provision of expert advice on product use and animal efficiency, productivity and wellbeing; Provision of special knowledge (such as environmental protection; carbon footprint etc. Give justification); Logistics; Advertising and information provision; Any other
Teaching activities.
Include all those areas where you have been involved in teaching others; either in academic or similar institutions, or in the workplace, or as a part of your professional activities. Give specific examples and means of verification (such as Email addresses, websites and references).
EXAMPLES OF SORTS OF TEACHING: Delivery of industry-based in-service training courses; Lecturing at tertiary educational establishments (detail levels of students, topics covered, numbers of hours, modes of delivery etc); Supervision of students and their work (eg honours student projects); Course organisation and other administrative duties; Research and post-grad student activities; Teaching and other similar Certificates (eg PGCE [FAHE]);Curriculum development and organisation of teaching; Practical skills training and demonstration; Mentoring; Any other
Initiating, managing and finalising strategies, policies programmes and projects.
Include all those areas where you have been involved in shaping the progress and usefulness of industrial, academic, service or government activities. Give specific examples and means of verification (such as Email addresses, websites and references).
EXAMPLES OF SORTS OF STRATEGY, POLICY, and PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT: Development Management; Management and direction of initiatives; In charge of investigational programmes strategies; Programme specification and development in the interest of sponsors (Industry / Government / NGO / etc); Budgetary control for industry, development and investigational work; Determination of departmental / organisational policies; Oversight and governance of organisations (programmes and people); Reporting and delivery of end objectives both internally and externally; Any other
Managing oneself, and managing other people and/or their work programmes.
Include examples of: (a) your having identified your own strengths / weaknesses and in using / addressing them; (b) your management of other individuals, groups, and organisations. Give specific examples and means of verification (such as Email addresses, websites and references).
EXAMPLES OF SORTS OF SELF MANAGEMENT: Achievement of goals; Progression of career; Training and CPD initiatives; Any other.
EXAMPLES OF SORTS OF PEOPLE: Responsibility for work programmes, projects and initiatives; Responsibility for liaison between groups (such as company staff and academic researchers); Headship of department or of particular activity sector (detail activities and scale); Leadership of individuals or teams; Budgetary control (give scale of responsibility); Management of industrial and business organisations (detail); Change management; Responsibility for services provisions; Responsibility for Health and Safety and Regulatory compliance; Any other
Other
Give evidence relevant to your application, including how you maintain professional standards, practices and ethics, and any involvement in public service. Give specific examples and means of verification (such as Email addresses, websites and references).
EXAMPLES OF SORTS OF ‘OTHER’: Maintenance of professional standards; Commitment to the protection of the environment and to the welfare of animals (give examples); Membership of local or national teams supporting public understanding of the Animal related industries; Leader / Secretary of Animal and Agriculture related Committees; Membership of Ethics or Environmental groups Home Office license holdings; Refereeing and scrutiny of work of others; Work on Panels and Boards; External recognition; Any other activity relevant to supporting your professional competency; Any Other
Specialism
Please identify your professional specialism (up to three allowed, separated by a semicolon.) Your specialisms will be identified on the Register and should be listed by order of importance.
Specialisms can include:
Animal housing, Animal production, Behaviour, Biology, Biotechnology, Carbon and N accounting, Chemicals (including pharmacology), Disease, Ecology, Economics, Educational management and direction, Engineering, Environmental protection and management, Experimental design and analysis, Finance, Food, Food security, Forages, Genetics (including livestock breeding), Grassland and grazing, Health and wellbeing, Human feeding and nutrition, Immunology, Growth and development, Journalism, Lactation, Livestock feeding and nutrition, Livestock management and systems, Livestock product quality, Nutrition, Meat, Microbiology, Parasitology, Pharmaceuticals, Physiology, Production management and direction, Quantitative analysis and modelling, Reproduction, Research management and direction, Rural development, Statistics, Technical support (laboratory and field), Technological development support, Welfare, Beef, Cattle, Companion animals, Dairy, Egg production, Equine, Fish, Goats, Laboratory animals, Livestock, Meat products, Milk products, Pest control, Pigs, Poultry, Rabbits, Sheep, Tropical livestock, Wild, zoo, exotic animals, Other (max four words)
References
Please provide details of two referees who can support your application
Title
First name
Last name
Affiliation (of referee)
Relationship to you
Application statement
Please enter any other information you think is relevant to your application.
This should include:
- if you are a member of BSAS or any other organisation supporting the Register.
- any conflicts of internets
- any other relevant occupations and activities
This information is for the Accreditation panel only and will not be part of the public register.
Submit your application
By submitting your application you are agreeing to:
-Abide by the judgements of the accreditation panel
-Exceed the minimum expectations for Continuing Professional Development
-Maintain your professional competencies and conduct as expected of members of the register
- Meet your obligations to maintain the standards of the profession and of professional integrity in yourself and in other members of the register.
Please note if you are member of BSAS, accreditation is free. If you are not a member you will be contacted for your accreditation fee in due course. You can apply for BSAS membership from you “My account’ page.
Please address all queries, general and particular to: